The North Dakota Badlands Workshop

Most of our time is spent outdoors making pictures. We visit some great spots, places we know will give us great sunrise or sunsets, high cliffs that provide scenic vistas and areas that always hold wildlife.

There's always something new! Dramatic clouds after a rain shower, horses drinking at a stream, maybe a herd of buffalo in a draw at the end of a long summer evening.

Morning and evening light is usually best of course. We're up early and ready for daybreak—one morning high on a ridge, the next perhaps in the river valley photographing the morning fog as it slowly gives way to a summer day.

As the light flattens out by late morning we'll work our way back to town. Afternoons we'll rest up then have an indoor session where we'll look at each other's images, maybe work an image or two on photoshop.

Late afternoon we'll head out again. We'll look at the wind, the weather and our whims and decide where to go for the best evening shoot. We often get lingering sunsets and sometimes stay until long after the sun goes down, shooting the last light in the evening sky.

We photograph, discover and critique in a friendly and noncompetitive way. We all have our reasons for being there but for the most part we all want to photograph, learn, enjoy nature and ourselves. We do our very best to make sure you feel welcome, comfortable and appreciated every hour of your stay.